Buckle



- March 4 1924. 1,485,868

W; F. MURTHA BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5, 1923 Ai 4 r Patented Mar. 4, 1924.

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BUCKLE.

- Application filed November 5, 1923. Serial No. 672,719.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. MURTHA, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in- Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a rustless buckle constructed in accordance with my invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing, which is partly broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof.

Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a view of the buckle-frame in front elevation on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 5 a plan view thereof, prior to the closing of the web-gripping members of the frame, which are shown in their gripping positions by dotted lines.

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the type shown and described in United States Patent No.' 30 847,811, granted March 19, 1907, on the application of Morris Peller, the object of my present invention being to produce a wireframe buckle in which the wire of the frame is bent to grip the fixed end of the webbing, whereby an economy of time, labor and webbing is effected, all sewing of the webbing being eliminated.

With these ends in view, by invention consists in a wire-frame rustless buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, the buckleframe consists of a single piece of wire bent to form a continuous straight lower bar 6, the ends of which are bent forward, then inward in front of the said bar, then upward and then outward to the ends of the said bar, to form two complementary gripping-loops 7, located in the vertical plane in front of the lower bar 6 and extending toward each other. The upper reaches of these loops 7 are bent inward and then upward at a right angle to produce the side bars 8 of the frame. The

respective ends of the wire are bent toward each other from the upper ends of the said side bars and at a right angle thereto to form aligned pintles 9, constituting in effect the upper bar of the frame and providing for the pivotal mounting of an ordinary sheet-metal buckle-lever having a finger-piece 10 and hinges 12, which clasp the pintles 9. As thus shaped, the one-piece wire buckleframe has a webbing-opening 13 in front of which the finger-piece 10 of the buckle-lever normall depends.

In webbing my improved buckle, what is to be the fixed end 14 of the webbing 15 is inserted into a narrow space formedj between the front face of the lower bar and the inner faces of the Vertically-arranged gripping-loops 7, which at this time stand away from the said bar, as shown in Fig. 5. When, however, the end 14 of the webbing is thus positioned, the loops are clamped down upon it into the positions shown by broken lines in Fig. 5, whereby the said end of the webbing is gripped between the loops and the lower bar and thus permanently attached to the buckle-frame with the utmost economy of webbing and with the elimination of stitching. The web bing is now passed from front to rear, over the top of the lower bar 6, whereby the bend 16 is ormed in it, then downward to form the usual 100 17 and then upwardly over the grippingoops-7, and then from front to rear over the bend 16 of the webbing and under the gripping-edge 11 of the bucklelever and upward, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

I claim:

In a buckle, the combination with a onepiece wire frame bent to form a continuous straight lower bar, the ends of which are bent forward, then inward toward each other, in front of the said lower bar, then upward and then outward to the ends of the said bar to form two complementary web-gripping loops located in the vertical plane in front of the said bar, and the outer ends of the upper reaches of the said loops being bent rearward and then upward to form the side-bars of the frame, and the upper ends of the said side-bars being bent inward toward each other to form pintleends constituting in effect the upper bar of the frame; of a buckle-lever mounted upon gripping-edge 11 and the said pintle-ends of the frame, and a In length Q f Webbing having its fixed end speci testimony Whereqf, I, haye signed this -3ficgtioi in the pregenee of two slubscribi gripped between the front face of the lower ing Witnesses.

bar of the frame and the rear faces of 5 the Vertically-arranged web-gripping lQQPS standing in front of'the said lower bar (if the frame.

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